fgerhartofsa
May 19th, 2010, 08:42 PM
I have a single hard drive with Vista pre-installed by Dell. All was working fine. Today I decided I wanted to resize the hard drive and install ubuntu so that I could have a dual boot system.
I used my 9.04 CD which has worked perfectly in creating dual boot systems with XP and ubuntu.
I allowed the ubuntu installer to resize my Vista partition and then install 9.04. All went well or so I thought. When I rebooted GRUB did not have a selection for Vista. I went ahead and booted into 9.04 and the upgrade manager notified me of the new release for ubuntu. I decided to apply the upgrade and again the ubuntu side of things is picture perfect.
But I still have no access to Vista. I then thought maybe the Vista partition was damaged so I booted from my Dell DVD and ran the repair utility which reported that there were no problems with the hard drive.
I have to get Vista back as I need it for my work.
****************** Here is the output from fdisk -l *****************
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x50000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 8 1313 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1313 31945 246055240 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 31946 38913 55970460 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 31946 38623 53641003+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 38624 38913 2329393+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
***************** Here is the output from boot info script *************
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #5 for /boot/grub.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Dell Utility: Fat16
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /COMMAND.COM
sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows Vista
Boot files/dirs: /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows Vista
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda4: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
sda6: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 63 112,454 112,392 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 112,640 21,084,159 20,971,520 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 21,084,160 513,194,639 492,110,480 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 513,196,425 625,137,344 111,940,920 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 513,196,488 620,478,494 107,282,007 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 620,478,558 625,137,344 4,658,787 82 Linux swap / Solaris
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 07D9-0512 vfat DellUtility
/dev/sda2 E454005D540034B8 ntfs RECOVERY
/dev/sda3 461E02BE1E02A6D1 ntfs OS
/dev/sda4: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda5 c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ext4
/dev/sda6 0cafdaa1-6b96-4866-ba81-f058544b1d44 swap
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sda5 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
=========================== sda5/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-22-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.31-14-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.31-14-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda3)" {
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0,3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 461e02be1e02a6d1
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
=============================== sda5/etc/fstab: ===============================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=0cafdaa1-6b96-4866-ba81-f058544b1d44 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
=================== sda5: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
265.7GB: boot/grub/core.img
266.2GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
263.3GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
264.6GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
263.3GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
264.0GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic
264.6GB: initrd.img
264.0GB: vmlinuz
Thanks in advance for your help,
Fred
I used my 9.04 CD which has worked perfectly in creating dual boot systems with XP and ubuntu.
I allowed the ubuntu installer to resize my Vista partition and then install 9.04. All went well or so I thought. When I rebooted GRUB did not have a selection for Vista. I went ahead and booted into 9.04 and the upgrade manager notified me of the new release for ubuntu. I decided to apply the upgrade and again the ubuntu side of things is picture perfect.
But I still have no access to Vista. I then thought maybe the Vista partition was damaged so I booted from my Dell DVD and ran the repair utility which reported that there were no problems with the hard drive.
I have to get Vista back as I need it for my work.
****************** Here is the output from fdisk -l *****************
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x50000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 8 1313 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1313 31945 246055240 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 31946 38913 55970460 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 31946 38623 53641003+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 38624 38913 2329393+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
***************** Here is the output from boot info script *************
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #5 for /boot/grub.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Dell Utility: Fat16
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /COMMAND.COM
sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows Vista
Boot files/dirs: /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows Vista
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda4: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
sda6: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 63 112,454 112,392 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 112,640 21,084,159 20,971,520 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 21,084,160 513,194,639 492,110,480 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 513,196,425 625,137,344 111,940,920 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 513,196,488 620,478,494 107,282,007 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 620,478,558 625,137,344 4,658,787 82 Linux swap / Solaris
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 07D9-0512 vfat DellUtility
/dev/sda2 E454005D540034B8 ntfs RECOVERY
/dev/sda3 461E02BE1E02A6D1 ntfs OS
/dev/sda4: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda5 c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ext4
/dev/sda6 0cafdaa1-6b96-4866-ba81-f058544b1d44 swap
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sda5 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
=========================== sda5/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-22-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.31-14-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.31-14-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda3)" {
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0,3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 461e02be1e02a6d1
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
=============================== sda5/etc/fstab: ===============================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=c3c9c8e9-6836-4867-b8d7-3c62a24963b1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=0cafdaa1-6b96-4866-ba81-f058544b1d44 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
=================== sda5: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
265.7GB: boot/grub/core.img
266.2GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
263.3GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
264.6GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
263.3GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
264.0GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic
264.6GB: initrd.img
264.0GB: vmlinuz
Thanks in advance for your help,
Fred